Ulyana Lopatkina, or dancing on weekdays and holidays (6+)
Russia, 2006, colour, 30 min.
Director: Sergey Lando
Director: Sergey Lando
Film-observation on one of the most “closed” ballet dancers in real life and in creative process. Life in the world of classical dance demands particular concentration. Art can absorb you completely and alienate from people – that often happens. Ulyana has interrupted her dancing experiments at the peak of her career for her little daughter. Time flies, Masha, her daughter, is growing up and Ulyana decides to return to stage. But art is jealous. The ballet dancer has to take again all the steps to mastership she once possessed.
AWARDS
Second prize, IFF “Art and Films”, Telc, Czech Republic, 2007; Best Camera Work, film festival “Siberian meetings”, 2008.
Sergey Lando
Sergey Lando
was born on January 16, in 1956 in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region). Graduated from the Rybinsk Avia Technical Institute. 1981-1987 – VGIK Camera department. Since 1987, he is Saint Petersburg resident. Being the director of photography of a film studio "Lenfilm" he has released a number of pictures at the St.-Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. He also worked as director and scriptwriter of documentary and animated films.
FILMOGRAPHY
Selected Filmography: Waiting Room, 1992; Giselle Mania, 1995; «The circus burnt down, and clowns left», 1998; Smart One, 1999; Genius loci, 2003; Uliana Lopatkina, or Dancing on Weekdays and Holidays, 2006; Petersburg’s Dolls, 2011; Sirin, 2014.
Russia, 2006, colour, 30 min.
Director: Sergey Lando
Director: Sergey Lando
Film-observation on one of the most “closed” ballet dancers in real life and in creative process. Life in the world of classical dance demands particular concentration. Art can absorb you completely and alienate from people – that often happens. Ulyana has interrupted her dancing experiments at the peak of her career for her little daughter. Time flies, Masha, her daughter, is growing up and Ulyana decides to return to stage. But art is jealous. The ballet dancer has to take again all the steps to mastership she once possessed.
AWARDS
Second prize, IFF “Art and Films”, Telc, Czech Republic, 2007; Best Camera Work, film festival “Siberian meetings”, 2008.